Annette Gordon-Reed Quotes
I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from all mankind.Annette Gordon-Reed
Quotes to Explore
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
Sam Childers -
My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.
J. B. Pritzker -
Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination. For the benefit of a minority, it is courteous to serve chilled fruit juice in addition to cocktails made with liquor.
Irma S. Rombauer -
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
Orison Swett Marden -
When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
Kate Bush
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Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.
Karl Ove Knausgard -
Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.
Doris Day -
We were trying to do as much science as we could because that was the main purpose of the international space station. But without the shuttle to bring up heavy laboratory equipment and bring back samples, we were limited by what we could do, but I was proud that we actually accomplished more science that was planned for the flight. And I got a chance to do two Russian spacewalks on that flight, I had become an expert in U.S. spacewalks and using U.S. suits and techniques, and this was a chance to put on a Russian Orlan suit and do two construction space flights outside of the space station.
Leroy Chiao -
Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
Rob Zombie -
The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat - & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you - so don't play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr - accept the fact that you're a criminal & be prepared to act like one.
Peter Lamborn Wilson -
I don't take sports seriously although I like that Scottish thing where they throw the poles. I'm down with that.
Peter Buck R.E.M.
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Cosmic love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/ dislike them or not.
John Lilly -
Success is the reward for toil.
Sophocles -
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Petrarch -
If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.
Paul Krugman -
There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.
Sarah Connor -
When I was a kid, I did martial arts because boxing wasn't really available on Long Island. I think now kids are able to begin boxing earlier. So it's great and whatever can promote the sport on a whole is a good thing. And if we can do it on Long Island, where I am from, it's a beautiful thing.
Chris Algieri
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Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.
Lao Tzu -
For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?
John Calvin -
It took Christians many years to realize that we cannot love God and also keep humans as slaves. It has taken even longer for Christians to realize that we cannot love God and also regard women as second-class humans. Now is the time for Christians to realize that we cannot love God and hate the Creator's nonhuman creatures.
Andrew Linzey -
I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from all mankind.
Annette Gordon-Reed